A polar bear has been spotted wandering around with “ T-34 ” scrawled on its soundbox in ignominious spraying paint .
It ’s unclearwhythe icy bear has been mark with bold black paint , although the uncheerful visual modality has fuelled plenty of theory and hearsay .
A grainy video of the graffitied polar bear was first uploaded to a WhatsApp grouping used by endemic the great unwashed living in the Chukotka autonomous neighborhood of northern Russia and latershared on Facebookby Sergey Kavry ( Серёга Кавры ) , who claims to work for the World Wildlife Fund ( WWF).Althoughpolar bears can be foundin the Chukotka autonomous region of Russia , it ’s not make love where the footage was shot .
The people film the TV from a stationary vehicle can be heard swearing in confusedness and asking “ Why is it so foul ? ” before realizing the scoring is actually paint , according to a translation fromThe Siberian Times .
Some multitude have suppose that the ticket was paint by scientists attempting to supervise the individual , while others have wondered whether it could be the work of the armed services . Or the polar bear may have been the dupe of a vicious antic .
The rag “ T-34 ” has rear some eyebrows . T-34 is theiconic Soviet tankfamously used in World War II against the Nazis , even discover by the Germans as the " best tank " of the war , that has since become a symbol of home pride in Russia . However , the relevancy of this quotation is uncertain .
Speculation has also suggested the bit may have been a response to growing concerns that polar bear have been come closer to human settlements in the Russian Arctic . Earlier this year , the coastal town of Novaya Zemlya declared a state of exigency after it wasoverrun with at least 52 polar bear .
“ This year there was a trouble with bears in Novaya Zemlya , perhaps they took measuring stick into their own hands this wintertime : trapping and immobilizing them , since there are no scientist doing it , ” Anatoly Kochnev , senior researcher at the Laboratory of Mammal Ecology at the Institute of Biological Problems of the North , part of the Russian Academy of Sciences , toldRussian medium .
irrespective of the need , it ’s venerate that the black spray rouge could leave the bear at risk of starving . Polar bear rely on their white fur to stay camouflaged from their prey , so this soul could experience some difficultness with any stealth approach when hunt .
The most obvious mystery story , of course of study , is how did anybody get close enough to spray paint a gaga glacial bear and endure ( assume they did ) ? The snowy giants are notoriously aggressive predator and no stranger to kill human race . Kochnev told the Siberian Times he suspected the fauna must have been sedated for anyone to apply the rouge , and the clearness of the writing suggests it was sedated for a while .
It ’s anticipated thathuman - bear conflictswill become a more common occurrence as clime changethaws Arctic sea shabu , a vital program used by the bears to hunt for fertile - rich seals and other marine creatures .
